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besselj

@ besselj @lemmy.ca

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  • LLMs have no more beliefs than a parrot does. They just repeat whatever opinions/biases exist in their training data. Although, that's not too different from humans in some respects.

  • Asking for advice: Very old abandoned Facebook account - revive and delete, or leave to rot?

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  • Even if you log back in to opt out, you can probably assume whatever data you gave them is already being used for AI. Best to abandon Meta and let it implode by itself.

  • Noem says DHS, Secret Service investigating Comey after he ‘called for the assassination’ of Trump

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  • Or "stop serving"

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  • Check out PostmarketOS for older machines/phones too. I got it working on an old Microsoft surface RT that would have been e-waste otherwise

  • Android 16's new Intrusion Logging feature helps detect if your phone was hacked

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  • Neat, but one needs to also trust that google isn't an adversary

  • Algorithm based on LLMs doubles lossless data compression rates

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  • Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

  • Algorithm based on LLMs doubles lossless data compression rates

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  • So if I have two machines running the same local LLM and I pass a prompt between them, I've achieved data compression by transmitting the prompt rather than the LLM's expected response to the prompt? That's what I'm understanding from the article.

    Neat idea, but what if you want to transmit some information that an LLM can't tokenize and generate accurately?

  • US administration launches federal probe into Muslim housing development in Texas

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  • Looks like TX isn't a safe place if you're not a Christian white cis male.

  • GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill

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  • Quick, somebody use the popular LLMs to generate abortion instructions

  • AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care

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  • They dont get that people want AI hardware that can also run games

  • Google updating its ‘G’ icon for the first time in 10 years

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  • Wow, so brave

  • China and US agree to slash tariffs

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  • Wow, he sure showed China who's boss 🤡

  • At least 10 people sickened in US listeria outbreak linked to prepared foods

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  • Good thing the USDA is doing away with those pesky regulations that are meant to prevent things like this from happening

  • Germany's SAP Software Giant To Abandon Diversity Measures

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  • As a German company, they should know a thing or two about appeasing facists

  • Introducing a new open-source shadow library!

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  • Saw some good engineering textbooks on there too. Great job.

  • Trump kills rural broadband grants, calls digital equity program “racist and illegal”

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  • The goal seems to be to keep people in rural areas ignorant and/or sell more starlink terminals

  • Canadians could stay visa-free longer in U.S. under proposed bill

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  • Until things get sorted out in the US, its not safe for immigrants

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    SpaceX pushed “sniper” theory with the feds far more than is publicly known

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  • A few years ago at the place I used to work, a former spacex employee who worked closely with Musk had mentioned this same story. Crazy that he had to convince his boss that no, it is highly unlikely that somebody shot at your rocket (at least at the time).

  • Chromium Blog: Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome

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  • You guys actually allow websites to send you notifications? Pretty much every site that has asked me to allow notifications is one that I wouldn't want notifications from.

  • Another $70 Million F/A-18 Super Hornet Fighter Jet Sinks Into Sea During Hegseth’s War

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  • Too early to know if some actions leading to these events were genuine mistakes or deliberate and subtle sabotage